I was stripping aluminum wire some would bend easily and some would not do they make different kinds of aluminum wire? I like to wrap the aluminum around to take up less space some wraps around really easily some does not like its really hard and no steel in it just doesn't want to wrap around in a coil easily. I ended up with 182lbs ec wire not done still got 50 5ft lengths of 4/0 aluminum and 3 60ft lengths that came in a 60ft aluminum conduit. Should be fun to run 60ft lengths through the stripper yay.